Now, like, I’m President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know? – I bet if they did, I hope I would say, ‘Hey, get lost. We don’t want any of that.’ (speaking to a group of students about drug abuse)
Drugs Quotes
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment.
I don’t think we need to be subliminable (sic) about the differences between our views on prescription drugs.
I received a letter from a professor at Harvard, Timothy Leary, inviting me to participate in a mind-expansion program using something I’d never heard of – LSD. I was intrigued. If I hadn’t been in the middle of a hit play, I would have joined his experiment. I wanted to expand my mind.
Whatever became of Strange de Jim? Well, he found a substitute for cocaine: “You cover Q-tips with sandpaper and ram them up your nostrils as far as they will go. Then you sniff talcum powder while shredding hundred dollar bills.”
A man came up to me on the street and said I used to be messed up out of my mind on drugs but now I’m messed up out of my mind on Jeeesus Chriiist.
Why is there so much controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who would be willing to test any drug they could come up with.
Why are there no recreational drugs taken in suppository form?
I did it to myself. It wasn’t society. it wasn’t a pusher, it wasn’t being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing. (on his heroin addiction)
People who grow up without a sense of how yesterday has affected today are unlikely to have a strong sense of how today affects tomorrow. It is only when we become conscious of the flow of time that the consequences of action whether it is taking drugs or dropping out of school become a consideration. […]
